May 17 is Walnut Day, Cherry Cobbler Day, and Pack Rat Day. All things I learned thanks to the May monthly creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community! 😊
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I am not a photorealist, nor do I aspire to be. I like to figure out how to quickly communicate concepts through sketching. That’s what I use the monthly creative challenges for: to grow my visual vocabulary. Other members use it to work on strengthening their drawing muscles, or to have a writing prompt every day. It’s up to you. It’s a fun way to stretch and share, and be inspired by each other. 😊
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Community is great for that.
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Happy Nylon Stocking Day! 😊 It’s also the first day of Multi-Passionate Must-Haves, the 72-hour bundle sale for people with a ton of different passions and interests. My ebook+workbook combo, Erase the Chaos Toolkit, is part of the bundle this year, which is a great lineup of courses and books to help you be more productive AS a multipassionate. Valued at over $1500, but selling for less than $100 for 3 days only—after Thursday, it’s gone.
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Check it out at http://bit.ly/MPMH2018 .
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We had Mom & Pop over for dinner last night for Mother’s Day (Avocado Alfredo—yum!). I recently took delivery of a new flipchart easel, which I’d set up in the living room to try out, so instead of making Mom a card, I made her a flipchart. It was the first thing she saw when they walked in, and she LOVED it! She immediately wanted to snap a pic. 😊
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Sometimes the tools of the trade come in handy for more than the trade. ❤️❤️❤️
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Doodlebot decided to come out and say hello on this fine Mother’s Day! Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mothers, and to all of you who have — or ever had — mothers, as well! .
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Today is National Odometer Day — who knew there was such a thing? The monthly creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community is “National Days,” so I’m learning what the national days of May are!
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In honor of Odometer Day, I’ve been sketching vehicles from Ed Emberley’s delightful book, Make A World. 🖍
I remember checking Emberley’s books out of the library when I was a kid. They break all kinds of items down into drawing “formulas.” A rectangle, plus two triangles, plus a couple of circles and dots—*boom*! You have a car with a driver and a passenger!
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Emberley made drawing into a fun game, a series of easy steps that anyone can do.
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DRAWING NEVER CHANGED!
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It’s still a series of easy steps that anyone can do! Whether you want to draw to communicate concepts (the kind of drawing I’m excited by these days), or to represent the world in a photorealistic manner to express emotions for a fine art purpose, it’s still a matter of breaking it down into steps.
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All complex challenges in life are the same: break them down into smaller steps and they become a whole lot more manageable.
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